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Example sentences for "cockcrow"

Lexicographically close words:
cockatrice; cockatrices; cockboat; cockchafer; cockchafers; cocked; cockerel; cockerels; cockeyed; cockfighting
  1. If the cockcrow once has sounded, Though the second has not sounded, 110 It becomes the young to rouse them, Though the old folk still are resting.

  2. If the cock should not be crowing, Nor the master's bird be crowing, Let the moon for cockcrow serve thee, Take the Great Bear for thy guidance.

  3. All went as before; not a clover plant of any kind did Amelia see, and at cockcrow the revel broke up.

  4. As for poor Amelia, she found no four-leaved clover, and at cockcrow they all went underground.

  5. At the third cockcrow he put the scapulary on her, whereupon she rose and thanked him, promising to be his wife and servant.

  6. At the second cockcrow she tried to get into the coffin, and unavailingly begged him to take out the cross.

  7. At cockcrow the vampire came out all blue and grinning; but, though she yelled horribly, she could not touch the man in the circle, who put the cross in the coffin.

  8. The ladies rise at cockcrow every morn-- Cyril: Ah, then they have male poultry?

  9. At cockcrow they set off again, but instead of cracking her nuts as she used to do, this time Kate plucked the feathers off and cooked the birdie.

  10. And at cockcrow they rode home as before, and the moment Kate got home to her room she rushed and touched Anne three times with the wand, and the nasty sheep's head fell off and she was her own pretty self again.

  11. Then Young Lovell knew that the spirits having power between cockcrow and dawn, in the period when men die and life ebbs down the sands--that these spirits were casting their spells upon him.

  12. When she rushes at thee, take and scatter the pears, and it will take her till cockcrow to pick them all up.

  13. And about the second cockcrow something else came to the window and said, "Oh, thou son of a dog!

  14. When she rushes at thee, scatter thy nuts, and the nuts will go rolling all about the church, and it will take her till cockcrow to gather them all up.

  15. Nay,' grunted the man, 'the old madman rose at second cockcrow saying he would go to Benares, and the young one led him away.

  16. Between first and second cockcrow of the first night in May.

  17. Over all was a Sunday stillness, broken only by the occasional bark of a distant dog or a cockcrow that was almost musical as it was borne by on the wind.

  18. O, but what ails you, my sailor cousin Phil, That you shake and turn white like a cockcrow ghost?

  19. At cockcrow the mother raised a cry, and went to the grave of her dead husband in order to consult his spirit as to what she had better do to recover her lost son.

  20. To this the leopard agreed, and the next morning the squirrel came at cockcrow and led the leopard to the tree where the tortoise's mother was hidden.

  21. Before the paling of the stars, Before the winter morn, Before the earliest cockcrow Jesus Christ was born: Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands had made Born a stranger.

  22. Oh, but what ails you, my sailor cousin Phil, That you shake and turn white like a cockcrow ghost?

  23. Nay,' grunted the man; 'the old madman rose at second cockcrow saying he would go to Benares, and the young one led him away.

  24. Before cockcrow the next morning, Ekkehard passed out of the gate on the Hohentwiel, on horseback.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockcrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aurora; dawn; daybreak; daylight; light; morn; prime; sunrise; sunup